pinfold

Example Sentences

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This line is attributive to ‘men.’ pestered ... pinfold, crowded together in this cramped space, the Earth.

From Milton's Comus by Bell, William

With shrilling bleat for comfort hie To every pinfold, humankind; Ah, there the fostering teat is dry, The stranger mother proves unkind.

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Rogers, Charles

Its earlier meaning is to hamper or entangle— "Confined and pestered in this pinfold here."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

For then she must think of the cow’s fodder and of the herdsman’s hire, flatter the heyward, defend herself when her cattle is shut up in the pinfold and moreover pay the damage.

From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Power, Eileen

The cottage at one corner of the Pool is the ancient pinfold, and the rent of it was paid to the lord of the manor. 

From Recollections of Old Liverpool by Nonagenarian, A